| Transcriber's note: | A few typographical errors have been corrected. They appear in the text like this, and the explanation will appear when the cursor is placed on the marked passage. In addition to the ordinary page numbers, the printed text labeled the recto (odd) pages of the first four leaves of each 16-page signature. These appear in the right margin as A, A2, A3… |
A VOYAGE TO
CACKLOGALLINIA
with a description of
the religion, policy, customs
and manners of that country
By Captain Samuel Brunt
reproduced from
the original edition, 1727,
with an introduction by
marjorie nicolson
Published for
THE FACSIMILE TEXT SOCIETY
By COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK: MCMXL
| Introduction (1939) Illustration A Voyage to Cacklogallinia Character Religion Policy and Government Customs, Manners, Dress, and Diversions The Journey to the Moon |
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A Voyage to Cacklogallinia appeared in London, in 1727, from the pen of a pseudonymous "Captain Samuel Brunt." Posterity has continued to preserve the anonymity of the author, perhaps more jealously than he would have wished. Whatever his real parentage, he must for the present be referred only to the literary family of which his progenitor "Captain Lemuel Gulliver" is the most distinguished member. Like so many other works of that period, A Voyage to Cacklogallinia has sometimes been attributed to Swift; its similarities to the fourth book of Gulliver's Travels are unmistakable. Again, the work has sometimes been attributed to Defoe. There is, however, no good reason to believe that either Defoe or Swift was concerned in its authorship, except in so far as both gave impetus to lesser writers in this form of composition.
Fortunately the authorship of the work is of little importance. It lives, not because of anything remarkable in the style or anything original in its author's point of view, but because of its satiric reflection of the background of its age. It is republished both because of its